Word: seamanship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the time at sea the men received instruction and practical experience in navigation, seamanship, engineering, and gunnery. Firing the five inch guns on board the battleship was the big thrill of the trip, it was reported, while taking the long watches was the chief hardship...
Champion jinx in French shipping, which has had more than its share of bad luck and inept seamanship, has roosted on the red-and-black funnels of the 34,569-ton luxury liner Paris. Since her launching in 1921, she has run aground in New York harbor, broken her back on Eddystone Rocks off the English coast, rammed a Norwegian freighter, twice been damaged by mysterious fires...
...crews of the Vestris, Antinoe, Florida, many another hapless vessel, were toasting their shins in a U. S. Liner's galley. Landing in Manhattan just in time to board the departing Cunarder Ausonia for Halifax, they got back home for a Christmas in which wide-awake U. S. seamanship played a far greater part than Santa Claus...
What happened when the Queen Mary came abreast of her berth at West 50th Street was no blow to the prestige of the port, but it was a mighty confirmation of the prestige of British seamanship. At 6:10 a. m. the 1,018-ft. ship lay in mid stream. Wind was down, tide was slack. Ten minutes later her 118-ft. beam was dead-centred in the 400-ft. slip between the Cunard and Italian Line piers. From the fo'c'sle head whistled two long, light heaving lines attached to ten-inch hawsers...
...able to throw a bowline") ; second month deck men, stewards and engine men will receive instruction in their special fields; third month will be a training cruise. Graduates are not guaranteed jobs and are not expected to be officer material at the end of their 90 days of general seamanship instruction, but they will receive certificates, ratings, the right to wear special insignia, the right to return for brushing-up courses later...